Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced that he had "developed a circulatory weakness, and there has been a cerebral thrombosis." Though he had rallied with astonishing vitality from earlier illness, including two previous strokes, Churchill at 90 was feeble and weary; his illness, said Moran, was "very serious indeed." In a chilling wind and rain, sorrowing Britons gathered quietly in the cul-de-sac outside Churchill's red brick house at 28 Hyde Park Gate...
Rome was something else again, and the "else" in translation read "glamour." From Forquet's flowing saris to De Barentzen's dirndl-skirted rain dress to Lancetti's denim and organdy evening gown, elegance was clearly the theme of the day. And of the night, too. thanks to Top Designer Princess Irene Galitzine, whose patio pajamas (patterned in mauve and pea-green poppies) and open-front, open-back nightgowns (layer-wrapped to conceal seams) stopped the show in Rome, but will only start it somewhere else...
...fire swept the cathedral and silenced the organ for a decade. Two world wars took an even heavier toll. The cathedral's stainedglass windows, removed to protect them from bombing raids, were replaced by sheets of oilcloth, which soon developed gaping holes, admitting not only rain and wind but also squadrons of pigeons that fancied the organ pipes as a roost. For years afterwards, repairmen were extracting pigeon skeletons from the pipes; some pipes have already caved in, while others are held together with string...
Even when he is reminiscing with Ingrid to the tune of "As Time Goes By" about the day she left him in Paris, Bogart manages to spit out such stinging lines as: "And there was a guy standing on the station platform in the rain with a funny look on his face 'cause his insides had just been kicked out.... Was it Laszlo you left me for, or were there others in between, or aren't you the kind that tells...
...forecaster wasted no time issuing a warning, and trouble came right on schedule. For ten days last month a wind from Hawaii blew across the Northern California coast, dropping its moisture when forced to climb over the mountains. Heavy rain fell, in some places 35 inches. Eastward all the way to Idaho, the high mountains got the worst drenching; the warm rain melted accumulated snow, adding another ten inches to the foaming runoff. Before the ill wind from Hawaii stopped blowing, it had started disastrous floods that cost nearly 50 lives and almost a billion dollars in damage...